Inside The New York Times Book Review: Putin’s Reign

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 6 November 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, Steven Lee Myers talks about “The New Tsar”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Amy Ellis Nutt discusses “Becoming Nicole”; Maria Russo talks about the season in children’s books; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	How did Putin rise to power and how much should we be worried that he stayed there?
0:06.7	Stephen Lee Myers will join us to talk about his new biography, The New Zar.
0:10.8	He's embraced not just the Soviet traditions, the instincts that he's always had, but
0:15.6	he's embracing the kind of vision of the leader of the state in a very Zar-like way, the
0:20.6	Imperial Zar.
0:21.6	What happens when one set of twin boys realizes he is a she?
0:26.3	Amy Ellis-Nott will be here to discuss her new book, Becoming Nicole, the transformation
0:31.2	of an American family.
0:32.4	Nicole, even as Wyatt, was always who she was.
0:35.5	A twin who really liked girls' things, who in the beginning called herself a girl boy.
0:40.7	Our children's books editor Maria Russo joins me for a conversation about our biggest
0:44.4	children's book issue of the year.
0:46.4	Alexander Alter will give us an update from the literary world, and Greg Cole's has
0:50.2	bestseller news.
0:51.5	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:53.3	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:57.3	Stephen Lee Myers joins us now from Los Angeles, where he is on book tour for his new book, The
1:04.8	New Zar, The Rise and Rain of Vladimir Putin.
1:08.2	Hi, Steve.
1:09.2	Good morning.
1:10.2	So you are currently a national security correspondent for the Times, but for a long
1:15.6	time, you were in Russia as bureau chief.
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